Evening Medusa

August 17th. “There will be no devaluation. Firm and clear"

This day in history. On August 17, 1998, the Russian government adopted "a set of measures aimed at normalizing financial and budgetary policies." This was the beginning of the last economic crisis of the 1990s, the exit from which ultimately ensured the well-being of the 2000s in many ways. We answer the main questions about those events: was Sergei Kiriyenko to blame, did Yevgeny Primakov behave correctly, and (where without him) what did Vladimir Putin get from this.

Permanent heading "landing for reposts" . For the second time in a week, there is good news in this section - following the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media, Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova spoke out in support of the bill on mitigating punishment for likes and reposts . By itself, her statement, of course, is unlikely to affect anything, but the more such statements from officials, the better in any case.

The business offered to share personal data of citizens without their knowledge. Experts from Russian IT companies have prepared amendments to the legislation that allow companies that have received a person's personal data to share it with anyone for purposes that the organization "deems beneficial to itself." It is assumed that the company that originally collected the data will be responsible for the safety of the data by everyone else - but you understand how everything will be.

And the Ministry of Internal Affairs has been doing this for a long time. A resident of Moscow discovered an abandoned police department (how does it sound, huh?), In the rooms of which there were dozens of boxes with documents - from citizens' passports to criminal cases and records of juvenile delinquents. All the passports were, fortunately, invalid, but the file folders contained thousands of photocopies of other documents, including those that had no statute of limitations. The Ministry of Internal Affairs began to fuss, cordoned off the building and began checking.

And Telegram too (actually not). In recent weeks, one after another, there have been reports in the media that Telegram does not monitor the security of users' personal data well. Various sources report vulnerabilities in various functions of the messenger, “leakage of documents” and the fact that the UK will now be able to read the correspondence. These messages were most actively disseminated by Yevgeny Prigozhin's "media factory". We figured out how justified these suspicions are.

And the text of the day. Recently, the Moscow City Court sentenced members of the "GTA gang" who killed drivers on highways near Moscow to life terms. Meduza Special Correspondent Daniil Turovsky reviewed the case file and investigators' recollections, spoke with relatives of the gang members, and reconstructed the full history of the group , which was led by two men who claimed to have been trained in a Pakistani terrorist camp.

Rest more in nature, because summer will soon end. Grisha Levchenko, Sasha Polivanov